A half-naked man was met with fury as he clambered onto a city's war memorial and refused to come down.
The brazen, unidentified man scaled Birmingham's Hall of Memory to commemorate those lost in world war one, ignoring demands to get off.
The shameless stunt was captured by a horrified onlooker as the man, who was wearing nothing but shorts, a baseball cap and rucksack, clung to a statue on the city centre monument.
Instead of listening to pleas to climb straight back down, the man brazenly said he would get down "when he was ready".
One visitor who spotted the man, who didn't wish to be named, said he and his wife were "dumbfounded" by his actions.
He told BirminghamLive: "We were going to a concert when we spotted him on top of the war memorial. It was easy to spot him because he wasn't wearing a shirt and it wasn't warm.
"There was a group of teenagers taking pictures and hanging around there.
"I gave him a few choice words and told him to get down, as did others, but he just said he'd get down when he was ready.
"The level of disrespect was unbelievable. Me and my wife were stood there dumbfounded."
Thankfully the man's actions did not go so far as to damage the monument, which was built in 1925 in tribute to Birmingham citizens who died in the great war.
Stricter laws were proposed in 2020 making the crime of defacing war memorials punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The Desecration of War Memorials Bill would make it easier to prosecute those accused of damaging or vandalising the monuments.
The war memorial was designed by Samuel Nathaniel Cooke Jr and opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught.
Four bronze statues, representing the Army, Navy, Air Force and Women's Services, were erected at the site's exterior.
